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   Michael Black to lanced6162@gmail.com   
   Re: Malvina Reynold's Turn Around   
   28 Feb 08 03:55:23   
   
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   From: et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   LanceU1943 (lanced6162@gmail.com) writes:   
   > While walking my dog this morning, I remembered Dick and Dee Dee   
   > singing   
   >   
   > "Where have you gone,   
   > My little one, little one,   
   > Where have you gone,   
   > My babies, my own   
   >   
   > Turn around and you're two   
   > Turn around and you're four   
   > Yurn around, you're a young man,   
   > Walking out of the door."   
   >   
   > I wonder who else might have sung the song. In my mind, I could hear   
   > Judy Collins singing it. My memory hears Harry Belafonte singing it in   
   > his own distinctive way. I can hear the Kingston Trio harmonizing it.   
   > It is the kind of song that Ian and Sylvia did so well in their   
   > Vanguard days. I would love to hear from anyone else who remembers the   
   > early years of folk music who rememberthis beautiful song.   
   >   
   I figured you'd got the author wrong, because this is the first time   
   I've heard it credited to Malvina Reynolds.  But I checked and you're   
   right.   
      
   That leaves the problem that I immediately recognize the lyrics, but   
   the version I must have heard couldn't have been by any of the people   
   you mention.   
      
   I can't figure out who though.  It was something that got air play,   
   and I thought someone pretty big, in some fashion.  But I can't figure   
   out who performed the version that's running in my head at the moment.   
      
   Whoever it was, it was so distant from Malvina Reynolds that I had   
   to assume she hadn't written it.   
      
      Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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